Boo!! He was my favorite character because he didn't give AF.
Why as he exiled in Spain again? Was it the for the way he ran the Search Bloc his first time around? Was it for killing Gustavo?
who was this character based on, and was it accurate that he got killed by Pablo?
shareCharacter didn't exist but Carrillo is based loosely off real life Colonel Hugo Martinez. I'm guessing the savagery Carrillo showed is fiction but it's what makes his character so likeable lol. His motto was basically fight fire with fire and I wish we would have gotten to seen more of his tactics.
shareI agree. He was my fave too. I just smh'd when that happened. Why loosely base him off of a character that replaced him? And why even put him in at all if that was good be the case. I laughed so hard when he went on his snuffing spree. That's how it should be done.
shareMy biggest qualm about S2 was the way they shortchanged the character of Carrillo.
From the beginning, it was obvious to anyone who was a student of history that Carrillo was meant as a stand in for Hugo Martinez. He was there to represent the character of Martinez, but they had to change his name because the character did lots of controversial and brutal things. Things that the real Martinez, would never want attributed to him, even if a shade of it is true.
They were setting Carrillo up to be Martinez, all along.
Go back to season one, there is a scene where Carrillo and his wife are talking about Junior, their son, who would ostensibly be the character that Hugo Martinez Jr. turned out to be.
Somewhere in between the two seasons, the producers must have decided that they really did want Martinez in the show. But what to do about Carrillo? They had to kill him, of course. Really stupid move.
It ruined it for me because, unlike in reality, there was no enmity between Pablo and Martinez in the show. The battle wasn't personal and we have nothing invested in the character of Hugo Martinez because he shows up in the last few episodes and does everything by the book. They should have never introduced him and let the character of Carrillo be the stand in.
It was an awful creative compromise. One done to both honor the legacy of Martinez, and to sanitize the tactics he used by involving himself with los pepes.
So Martinez did do the things Carrillo did?
Dracarys!!
Martinez definitely employed and designated torture when he felt he could exploit some of the ones that were captured. Did he himself hold a gun to anybody's head? Maybe, maybe not.
He was trying to match Pablo's viciousness. It's probably why he was ultimately successful. Somebody had to fight Escobar dirty, if they wanted him dead.
He is, after all the fireworks, a Colombian hero, though. So it's no surprise that the image they need to maintain of him is that he was squeaky clean. The Carrillo character was a scapegoat. It let somebody that didn't exist, take the credit for the nasty stuff that needed to be done in the narco-war.
But really, the whole show would have been better served if the conflict between Carrillo/Pablo had played out like it had in reality.
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Yeah, the death of Carillo was too Hollywood, seemed out of place with the rest of the show which followed history somewhat authentically.
shareYes I agree with all of this. I loved the Carrillo character, and they should have kept him alive and let him be the one that was in charge for Search Bloc the entire time.
Granted, the ambush scene that they kill Carillo in was awesome, but they could have had someone else die and kept the storyline flowing. Carrillo's did play into the Maritza/Limon/Quica storyline though and it was good.
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I hate this character. I hope Pablo made him suffer.
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